Add Tags to YouTube URLs for Specific Time in Video

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Add Tags to YouTube URLs for Specific Time in Video

Jason Kincaid at TechCrunch is reporting that YouTube is now letting users add a short tag to the end of YouTube URLs that allows users to cut straight to a particular moment in a video. Instead of linking and telling the user to cut forward to a certain time, now the link is smart enough to send you there automatically.

Here’s an example of the best part from this awesome video I saw the other day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0#t=2m07s. All you have to do is add the “t=” and then the time in “2m07s” format. It’s that simple.

Google Video had this feature previously, so it’s a mystery it took this long to make it happen on YouTube.

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